VIDEO: Angels hang seven on the Red Sox in the second

The Angels had Eduardo Rodriguez pretty well figured out Monday afternoon, jumping all over the young lefty for seven runs in the second inning, including two home runs.

Erick Aybar opened the inning with a single before David Freese fouled out and C.J. Cron walked. Chris Iannetta then started the scoring, singling to to score Aybar. Daniel Robertson then doubled to score Cron and push Iannetta to third. Johnny Giavotella then singled to score both Iannetta and Robertson. Kole Calhoun then launched his third home run in two games and his 13th of the season. Mike Trout then out to third before Albert Pujols tied Trout for the American League and MLB lead in home runs, with 27. After the Pujols blast Rodriguez was yanked in favor of Noe Ramirez who got Erick Aybar to fly out.

Pujols is now also tied with Bryce Harper and Giancarlo Stanton as well as Trout for the home run title. It was Pujols' 547th all time homer, one shy of tying Mike Schmidt for 15th on the all-time list. With the homer, Pujols tied Ty Cobb for 12th on the all-time extra-base hit list with 1,135.

Over his last 12 games, Calhoun is batting .360 with five home runs, five doubles and 15 RBI.

Rodriguez had been a top-100 prospect according to Baseballprospectus.com, Baseballamerica.com and MLB.com each of the last two years prior to his debut on May 28 agaisnt Texas. Rodriguez was terrific, tossing seven and two thirds scorless. Rodriguez followed up that impressive debut with two more great starts of seven innings one run and six shutout innings. However, since his first three starts Rodriguez has been much more inconsistant. Rodriguez's ERA swelled to 3.59 before his start today. After giving up seven runs in one and two thirds, his ERA jumped to 4.64.

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